Ok, so I got half of the trim for the backseat painted, and that turned out great, now yesterday I started painting the other half and some spots came out hazy and other spots were normal. I used a couple cans of paint and did 3 peices so it wasn't the paint or part, and I used the same procedure I used the first time. Any ideas what could have happened?? It was pretty humid out and Im not sure if that could be what happened or what. Any ideas?? Also can I just paint over that paint that is messed up, or should I sand it down and start over?? Thanks!
Humidity/moisture can cause rattle can paint to fog...
You might want to go back and wet sand some of it down to get that haze off, and then clear it. Thats what happend when I did my bezel in my car. My glove box door came out perfect along with the little vents and what not, yet when I did my bezel the same way a day later, the clear coat on it came out really hazy, and I had to wetsand it down and redo the clear on it. Came out awesome afterwards, so you might want to try that.
K, thanks for the help, although it wasn't the clear coat that was foggy, it was duplicolor universal black automotive paint, I would imagine it is the same thing going on here. I got around to wetsanding it today, and I'm going to repaint tomorrow as long as the weather is decent. I guess I just got too impatient with the weather, it has been nothing but really humid/rain here in central PA.
The paint usually isn't what becomes hazy, unless you sprayed when it was like 80+ degrees, lol. Did you put any clear on it after the paint became hazy?? If you put clear on it after it was hazy, wetsanding might not get the haze off it. You may have to go to a higher grit sandpaper like 400+ to get the hazy off. However, if you didn't do any clear, the wetsanding should be just fine. Just make sure you dry every square inch of item, corners, nooks, crannies, etc before you do any primer, paint, etc.
Exodus 259 wrote:If you put clear on it after it was hazy, wetsanding might not get the haze off it. You may have to go to a higher grit sandpaper like 400+ to get the hazy off.
After I've gotten the initial texture off [a plastic piece in our interiors], I don't do anything but wetsanding regardless of paper grit. It comes out a lot smoother and I've found that the sandpaper itself lasts longer (I don't have much money to spare so I save it where I can!
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